Show Me Love (1998)

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Plot Summary: One Friday night in the Swedish town of Amal, Elin, an outgoing popular girl and Agnes, a lonely misfit, share a kiss which sparks a journey of discovery for them both.

Trigger/content warnings: This blog entry contains discussions of homophobia, bi erasure, death, suicide and ableism.

In this entry, I look at lesbian representation, queerness, class, disability and outsiderhood in the Swedish coming-of-age drama Show Me Love. (The content under the cut contains spoilers.)

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